overtax
verb (used with object)
to tax too heavily.
had overtaxed
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past perfectof overtax.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Rather, information technology experts discovered that electronic security measures put in place to protect elections systems from cyber attacks had overtaxed and slowed an older operating system.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
In Roosevelt's last year at Harvard, a physician warned him that he had overtaxed his heart and must lead a more sedentary life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the village to refund $34,505,77 to Son Lincoln because Hudson had overtaxed the Ellsworth estate.
From Time Magazine Archive
I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength and that I must repose before I could continue my journey.
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In the ardor and assiduity of his devotion to the colonial cause Otis had overtaxed his mental powers.
From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath
